European Tour will be the biggest Ryder Cup winner, whatever result Darren Clarke's team return home with

The importance of the Ryder Cup to the future of the PGA European Tour was underlined this week after the Tour posted record losses of £7.9million for last year.
Golf's biggest event concludes on Sunday, but the biggest winner of all is the European Tour, with the Cup continuing to underpin their finances.
The record losses of £7.9m for 2015, a non-Ryder Cup year contrast sharply with the 2014 accounts, when the home event played at Gleneagles, ensured a profit of £17.2m.
Turnover in 2014 was £231.4m, but this fell back to £153.6m last year, demonstrating that Gleneagles in 2014 was worth... read more

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